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First World Problems: People Are Mad At Spotify Over This Tweet – trigger warning

Screenshot of the now-deleted and grotesquely sexist tweet.

Spotify did a superb job of alienating part of its audience Friday afternoon with a completely tone deaf tweet. In an effort to rally engagement around a free subscription to Spotify Premium, the streaming music service tweeted “Ahead of #MothersDay, how would you explain Spotify to your mom?”

Seriously.

Real moms are not pleased.

.@Spotify I'd say that I don't need to Momsplain your app to my mom, because she understands Snapchat and uses emojis better than I do.

At reddit people were amazed that I’m a grandmother with a 3D printer.

El Martyachi

You two should really try your hand at co-opting the raging grannies.

The Goat

I’m a goat, so I just naturally amaze people.

Waffle

Yeah, the ageism and sexism is a real bitch.

Frances

I’m a granny, but what’s Spotify? If it doesn’t provide the music I prefer, I don’t want to know.

Frau Katze

I’ve heard a lot about it, but I prefer to choose by own stuff.

kkruger71

I think everyone that was born before 1960 should file a class action suit against the entire stand-up comedy profession for all the “can’t set their VCR clock” jokes told during the 80s. The trauma of having their self-worth questioned like that surely triggered an avoidance of new technology since then, limiting their earning potential.

Clausewitz

Spotify is millions of songs that are downloaded to the site. Almost all new, almost all complete pieces of shit. I think it’s a social experiment to see how fast we can download all of this crap on one large server so it can be launched into the sun.